Books & Literature

Although this is a book column and not a parenting column, I am going to take this space to own up to a parenting...

Bold choice to write a satire in 2026 is a sentiment I’ve come across more than once lately. Boldness is inherent in the act...

Sarah Wynn-Williams’s memoir documenting her seven years working at Facebook opens, unexpectedly, with a shark attack. The New Zealander was 13 years old and swimming...

Luke Kennard, writerThis is a really good year for new fiction. I don’t think anyone writes about contemporary Englishness as astutely, mercilessly and affectionately...

Martina Hefter’s Hey, Good Morning, How Are You? has caused much argument in German literary circles. It won the country’s most influential fiction award...

Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction, based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide, generously provided by the...

A lost copy of a poem composed in the seventh century by a Northumbrian cattle herder – the earliest surviving poem in the English...

Thankfully, the attack left only black eyes and bloodied faces. It was in Karagümrük, a tough neighbourhood in Istanbul’s old city, once known for...